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BERTIE'S (Restaurant)

This historic building has enjoyed a variety of uses over the years being home to a women's workhouse in the early 17th century. Later it became a posting house and then in the 18th century a coaching house called "The Kings Head." In 1995 it was renamed "Bertie's" after the P.G Woodhouse character Bertie Wooster.
Our team of chefs have gained recognition from the AA and Good Food Guide. Bertie's specialises in traditional British fayre but our chefs have blended culinary nostalgia with modern flair and created a very different menu.
The menu may feature "Homemade fishcakes with a tomato herb sauce" alongside "Brochettes of monkfish with a lemon and chervil dressing" or perhaps "pork and herb sausages on a bed of mustard mash" alongside "Roasted rack of lamb with figs and a sauce of ginger".
A quote in the "Good Food Guide" reads………."Berties are able to deliver impressive modern dishes that aspire to higher things than the bistro style décor might suggest".
This simple philosophy is followed at Berties - good quality food, sensible pricing and friendly and willing service. David Birmingham opened his first restaurant in 1981 in Maidstone, Kent with the second following in Winchester shortly after. "Hunters Restaurant" in Alresford followed, attracting critical acclaim in the AA and Good Food Guides as did the second "Hunters" which opened in Jewry Street, Winchester a few years later.
Berties Restaurant opened in 1995 in a lovely old "character" building in The Hundred in Romsey. We were fortunate to be able to purchase the adjoining property and added a much needed private room, conservatory dining and additional bedrooms. During the last twenty years a style has evolved which has stood the test of time and has proven to be ever popular and labelled "culinary nostalgia" by the catering press.
Our young, enthusiastic chefs are very much influenced by their contempories in books and on TV and have taken old favourites from childhood memories and given them a modern twist resulting in dishes which have continental flavours, colour and presentation that bear little resemblance to the original!